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Friday, July 19, 2013

Bob Thiel: Gay Marriage Is Causing East Coast Heatwave

Bob Thiel, the non-ordained self-appointed false prophet, Chief Overseer of the ContinuingEd Church of God, and worlds greatest authority on Mayan silliness has made another bold prophetic utterance. I continue to be amazed and in awe of the awesomeness of these COG cult leaders who think they speak and act for what ever it is they call god.

The Eastern U.S. has been hit with oppressive heat recently. It is now moving in "reverse" and into the Midwest. This phenomenon happens occasionally and is a natural part of the weather pattern in the United States. While most weather patterns move West to East, this current heat wave is moving Westward.

There is a reason for that, at least according to "Boob" Thiel. The recent approval of allowing gay marriage has caused this. The prophet writes:

Could the extreme weather be at all related to the growing legal
acceptance of homosexual marriage and other abominations in the USA?

What does the Bible teach?

The Bible, in several places, ties weather issues to Sodom and
Gomorrah, cities that were destroyed for sins such as their sexual
immorality:

7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. (Jude 7)
6…the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those who afterward would live ungodly (2 Peter 2:6)

Like any good Armstrongite trained at the feet of Rod Meredith, sex has to be involved.

However, Bob conveniently ignores the other scriptures that describe the "sin of Sodom." Those descriptions describe exactly present day Armstrongism!

Behold
this was the iniquity of Sodom thy sister, pride, fulness of bread, and
abundance, and the idleness of her, and of her daughters: and they did
not put forth their hand to the needy, and to the poor.

16 comments:

Anonymous
said...

Nice rebuttal Gary. On top of that the Sodom story is not a story about a whole gay town raping angels. It is a hospitality tale . Lot must have forget they were all gay when he wanted to turn his daughter over to the crowd, "to do with as you wish for she has never known a man," That part rarely makes it into articles and sermons.

Well in Melbourne Australia yesterday (18/7) we experienced our hottest July day in 40 years reaching a top of 23 deg celsius when the mean max temp for July is 13.5!! It was absolutely splendid to feel a burst of summer in the middle of winter!! :-) Of course that was before a cold front made its way towards us in the late afternoon dropping the temp by 10 deg & bucketing down--4 seasons & all!! :-) I don't think the meteorologists were able to pinpoint any specific infraction on the part of any Melbournian on the radar as THE single cause for this anomalous weather pattern. But I for 1 was happy while it lasted! Thank you God! :-) (Matthew 5:45)

One of the things that I believe gives credibility to the Bible is that ALL of its "heroes" are flawed men, and are subject to sin, downfall and big mistakes. This is the reality of all men, and the Bible holds this true.

I think it's funny when the rest of the country experiences the same kind of heat we experience down here in Houston for at least 6 to 7 months out of the year for the past 30 plus years I've been living here. I guess the false profits of Armstrong think we are the greatest "sinners" of all. Ha!

Trying to predict the future is a form of witchcraft and there is a warning about "wizards that peep and mutter" in Isaiah 8:19. Using prophecy as a crystal ball to foretell the future is why the cults have been 100% wrong 100% of the time.

Oh, that's right, we're talking about a current heat wave, not Sodom's heat wave...which seems to be a little different, somehow...Oh, yeah, Sodom was destroyed by a fire from the sky etc. and had nothing to do with the weather.

C'mon Thiel, it's summertime, sometimes there are heat waves in the summer. I don't why, they just happen...maybe global warming? Has anyone ever noticed that the stock market crash of '29 caused a drought in Oklahoma? Just wondered...

Behold, this was the iniquity of thy SISTER Sodom: pride, fulness of bread, and careless ease was in HER and in HER DAUGHTERS, but SHE did not strengthen the hand of the poor and needy."

Boy, that's a lot of feminine words for a totally gay town! I guess they were all lesbians and stayed home that day not knowing they could have had Lot's daughter!

Boy...can you imagine the tension at dinner that night at Lot's house???? "So Mr. Lot..., said Mrs. Lot, "you wanna explain that give Naoimi to the guys to do what they want because so far we have managed to keep her safe and pure? Pass the salt jerk." :)

Thiel's god seems pretty indiscriminate. A few gays get it on, so this god raises the thermostat in their whole jurisdiction.

Seems to me he could minimize injustice and conserve resources by punishing the specific individuals who commit the offenses, the way our court system is designed to do. If the Abrahamic weather-god does it that way, and if he uses lightning to smite offenders, he must think Americans have been getting less sinful, not more. Check out this report from the CDC:

"From 1968 to 2010, deaths from lightning in the United States decreased by 78.6% among males and 70.6% among females. During this 43-year period, a total of 3,389 deaths from lightning were recorded, an average of 79 per year. The highest yearly total of deaths from lightning (131) was recorded in 1969, and the lowest total (29)was recorded in 2008 and again in 2010. During the period, 85% of lightning deaths were among males."